Alabama A-Day Live Updates: White 17, Crimson 14, final

TUSCALOOSA -- In Alabama's first two scrimmages of the spring, AJ McCarron and Blake Sims combined to throw for 918 yards and 12 touchdowns. Only two passes were intercepted.

In the A-Day Game on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium, the defense evened that score.

In a game that featured nine turnovers, Nick Perry intercepted two passes by Sims, and McCarron also had two passes intercepted.

One of those interceptions was returned 86 yards for a touchdown by Vinnie Sunseri on the last play of the first half.

It took a 7-yard touchdown run up the middle by T.J. Yeldon to give McCarron's White team
(first-team offense) a 17-14 victory over the Crimson Tide (first-team defense).

The Crimson team had gone ahead 14-10 with a 55-yard return of a fumble recovery by HaHa Clinton-Dix with 2:01 left in the game.

The White team held off a last-second threat by the Crimson team. Landon Collins broke up a pass from Alec Morris to Chris Black in the end zone on a third-down play, and Morris overthrew Black in the end zone on the last play of the game.

McCarron threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Bell to cap
the game's first series. Until the last 64 seconds, it was the only offensive touchown of the
game.

Fourth quarter

White 17, Crimson 14:T.J. Yeldon ran 7 yards up the middle for a go-ahead touchdown with 1:04 left in the game. The play came one play after AJ McCarron completed a 50-yard pass to Christion Jones.

Crimson 14, White 10: With 2:01 let in the game, HaHa Clinton

-Dix returned a fumble 55 yards for a touchdown to put the Crimson team (first-team defense) ahead for the first time all day. Tight end Brian Volgler caught a short pass from AJ McCarron on the play, but Deion Belue forced the fumble.

Third quarter

No scoring.

TUSCALOOSA -- AJ McCarron completed 12 of 17 passes for 136 yards and one touchdown in the first half to help the White team take a 10-7 lead over the Crimson Tide in the A-Day Game on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

He threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Bell to cap the first possession of the game.

But on the last play of the half, Vinnie Sunseri returned an interception of a McCarron pass 86 yards for a Crimson team touchdown.

T.J. Yeldon ran six times for 23 yards and caught five passes for 45 yards for the White team (first-team offense).

Bell has three catches for 71 yards.

Kenyan Drake ran five times for 24 yards and caught three passes for 12 yards for the Crimson team (first-team defense).

White 10, Crimson 7: Vinnie Sunseri returned an interception 86 yards as time expired in the first half to cut the White team's lead to three points. With 16 seconds left, AJ McCarron threw deep down the left sideline to Amari Cooper. The ball hung up and cornerback Deion Belue defelected it. Sunseri caught it, then ran all the way down and across the field for the touchdown. He outran wide receiver Christion Jones and McCarron and barely got the ball across the goal line.

First quarter

White 10, Crimson 0: Safety Nick Perry intercepted a floating pass that Blake Sims put up under pressure and returned it 46 yards to the 12-yard line. The Tide netted 0 yards on three plays, and Cade Foster then kicked a 29-yard field goal with 7:09 left in the first quarter.

White 7, Crimson 0: The White team received the opening kickoff and wasted no time in taking the lead. Well, it did get a holding penalty on its first play, but it rolled after that. AJ McCarron capped a four-play, 70-yard drive with a 40-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Bell, who beat cornerback Cyrus Jones to the ball in the end zone. On the previous play -- a third-and-3 play -- McCarron lobbed a pass to Bell for 23 yards down the right sideline. Bell beat cornerback Deion Belue on the play.

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- The sky is bright blue with no clouds anywhere. It's 65 degrees on an immaculate spring day. A perfect day for college football.

The lower bowl in Bryant-Denny Stadium is starting to fill for the 2 p.m. kickoff of the Alabama football team's annual A-Day Game. The 2013 Crimson Tide just took the field to start warming up. The "game" will be televised live by ESPN2.

Besides quarterbacks, a handful of other players are in black non-contact jerseys: C.J. Mosley, cornerback John Fulton and running back Jalston Fowler.

Running back Dee Hart and wide receiver DeAndrew White are not in bacl jerseys. Hart is on the White team (first-team offense) and probably will back up T.J. Yeldon. White is on the Crimson team (second-team offense) and will catch passes from Blake Sims, Alec Morris and others.